Crashing because of a bad hdd?

[SooWhat]

Games occasionaly crash. Swapped out my gpu ,still crashes.

But my hdd might be making very quiet ticking noises while utilising it.

No bluescreen. The screen just freezes and the ingame sound litterally earrapes me.

Could it be because of my bad hdd?

[jake765111]

3 minutes ago, SooWhat said:

Games occasionaly crash. Swapped out my gpu ,still crashes.

But my hdd might be making very quiet ticking noises while utilising it.

No bluescreen. The screen just freezes and the ingame sound litterally earrapes me.

Could it be because of my bad hdd?

Tiking is normal. Mine used to do this. I upgraded to an SSD and it may have fixed my problem. Have you done any OC on your CPU or GPU? I would up the voltage just a slight bit. Try one ram DIMM and if it happens again to try another. One could be bad. Reseat your CPU. 

 

There is a lot of things that could cause this sadly. 

[SooWhat]

2 minutes ago, jake765111 said:

Have you done any OC on your CPU or GPU?

No overclocking whatsoever. GPU is very slightly underclocked.

Also, my brothers hdd failed after ticking so you probably got lucky.

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 I would up the voltage just a slight bit.

Dont really wanna mess with the voltage.

And im pretty sure the ram is fine

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

if u have the bccode for the crash u can quite easy find out where the problem lies usually

 

if it only freeze, without bsod u can still check register for critical errors n stuff

 

check if u had any bsods in the past tho, with bccodes

[Turtle Rig]

21 minutes ago, SooWhat said:

Games occasionaly crash. Swapped out my gpu ,still crashes.

But my hdd might be making very quiet ticking noises while utilising it.

No bluescreen. The screen just freezes and the ingame sound litterally earrapes me.

Could it be because of my bad hdd?

What OS are you using ?  I think its time you get a SSD hmmm!

[SooWhat]

7 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

What OS are you using ?  I think its time you get a SSD hmmm!

Win 10. Really considering taking a bus to the city to get a damn ssd 

[chen57]

yeah new ssd  but i would really suggest to try with one ram Dimm just to be sur the ram is working fine !

[Turtle Rig]

2 minutes ago, SooWhat said:

Win 10. Really considering taking a bus to the city to get a damn ssd 

I had a feeling.  Just spend 60 bucks on a 500GB 

[porina]

A dying disk can certainly cause a system to freeze then crash. It is waiting for info that isn't coming, and eventually falls over. Run something like CrystalDiskInfo and see what your disk reports its status as. Even if it shows ok, look for warning signs like sector reallocation events, or pending sectors. Those are signs of bad areas on the disk.

 

What is the ticking sound? If it is occasional, and only during activity, that's normal and are the disk heads moving around to position. If your system stops responding and you hear a regular repeating noise, that could be the drive attempting to repeatedly access the data.

[SooWhat]

UPDATE.

Bought a 480gb kingston a400 and changed my gpu to a slightly better one.

Then it started to shut down while gaming instead of crashing and my cpu is at 60°C in the bios.

Comes out my front glass panel restricts the airflow so badly even with holes for it, the system just overheats.

I removed the glass panel and the temps dropped aprox. 15°C.   Whew

Now, I have a faster system (never going back to harddrives) that runs at a max 60°C while the gpu and the cpu are at 100%. The system hasn't crashed since.

 

Another thing I found out is that the heat could have damaged my temp sensor in my cpu. Aircooled 7°C isn't normal